Time passes quickly and today is my first month in Paris to breath the air of these eternal city full of art and beauty. Even if life isn’t that cheap today I decided to celebrate.

Where to go to celebrate this frist month? Chez Ladurée of course.

75, Avenue des Champs élysées is the dreams’ adress,a little paradise come down to earth where you can buy happiness, under the shape od macarons. It is a beautiful boutiques thats evoques XVIII century with her green ladurée and golden rifinitures that give a sense of luxury and prestige tipical of the french patisserie .

The story of Ladurée’s family is linked to that of the salon de thé of Paris. Everything started in 1862 when Louis Ernest Ladurée opened a bakery at 16,Rure Royale in Paris, period and district of the parisian bella vita,frenetic,elegant and opened to entreteinment.

In 1930 the shop of Rue Royale was renovated and expanded,the first step of the never ending expansion of the patisseries and brand Ladurée: in 1993 Ladurée is bought from Holder Group with the aim to expand it all over the world. Other shops are opened: in September 1997 a new prestigious adress open on Champs-Elysées with thé room and restaurant, in 2002 in Rue Bonaparte and then in 2005 in the rest of Europe and the wordl. Nowadays Ladurées can be found in 23 country with its 53 shops, three of them in italy, two in Milan and one in Rome.

The macarons collection is made by ten different tastes that goes from raspberry to lemon,from rose petal to orange flowers, from pistachio to coffé. Moreover you can found,every moth other six tastes, the season macarons,in fact,that are added to the collection.

How much does these little delices cost? Luxury is luxury and has to be paid. Every single mini macarons costs 1,30 euros while the normal ones 3,40 euros each. The little boxes of 15 macarons cost 18 euros while those ones of 24 cost 34 euros . Obviously it’s not cheap at all but, in the end, this is the price that has to be paid to gift moment of pleasure to your taste buds.

The Champs Elysées one is not the only Ladurée store in Paris:

21 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

64 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris

64 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris

16 Rue Royale, 75008 Paris ‎

13 Rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris

41 Rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris ‎

If you come to Paris,Ladurée is one of the places you shouldn’t miss ;)